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AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers - Dexerto
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this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2025
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Crazy that 700 professionals in india is cheaper than a compute/data centre.
700 professionals in India probably make more coherent software than AI.
100%, but i dont think that will stay true for too long.
In the meantime. This is a valid business model.
Depends what you mean by "valid". If you mean "profitable", sure: Fraud has always been a profitable business model.
But if you mean "valid" in terms of what Microsoft got out of their $455M investment, not so much, as they wanted a great new AI model, not the output that the "human-powered" model produced pretending to be an AI.
Of course. Just one more nuclear reactor bro, just one more trillion dollars investment bro
Oh is that what itll cost? /s
Yeah. Trust me on this, bro
a data center isnt cheap, probably cost billions, a year to operate or millions. plus all the side effects, like power requirement and water waste.
I can run a small model on my home pc, if i had access to those kinds of resources, i could run a AI data centre for profit, probably more rssource efficient than those 700 dudes as well.